Nursing Informatics Key Role in Defining Clinical Workflow, Increasing Efficiency and Improving Quality

HIMSS September 30, 2020
Anna. E. Schoenbaum, DNP, MS, RN-BC, FHIMSS and Whende M. Carroll, MS, RN-BC; HIMSS Nursing Informatics Committee Members

COVID-19 spreading across the globe has underscored the crucial role of nursing informatics as healthcare organizations have faced delivering care during these unprecedented times.

For decades, nursing informatics specialists have integrated nursing science with information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, informatics, knowledge and wisdom. Nurse informaticists are now advancing their focus beyond EHR implementation and successfully innovating change as analysts, educators, software engineers, policy developers and operational owners to help advance healthcare.

And in the past several months, nursing informatics specialists have played a key role in establishing new clinical workflows, increasing operational efficiencies and improving care quality for their patients.

The HIMSS Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey indicates that over two-thirds (68%) of the survey...

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